Press and daily Dakotaian. (Yankton, Dakota Territory [S.D.]) 1880-1889, 1887-10-12

po Wae seheu IL no wanted WorEy ne
said yes, but could not leave the game
!ust then, bias would go around IN the
morning.
Phil kearney post is now domiciled
in its new hall on Douglas avenue,
where it has comfortable and commo-
dious quarters all Its own. The hall
was built by the post and is q hand
some structure of brick containing all
the conyeniencies for post meetings,
public entertainments, etc.
Several excursionists from the east
reached Yankton last night on harvest
excursion tickets and we're taken In
charge by friends from the country and
are to day looking oyer the fertile fields
and broad farms of this country. An.
other excursion Is expected to arrive on
the Northwestern this evening.
Grain prices continue to hold as
quoted yesterday and the farmers are
taxing advantage OF the pleasant
weather end are bringing in an unusual.
ly large Quantity. The crop of flax this
year has not been as good in quality
as that OF last year. bnt the quantity is
large. Receipts to-day foot up about
5000 bushels.
-Four Yankton manufacturing estab-
lishments are run by motors supplied
from the city artesian we'll and one
Yankton manufacturing establishment
Is run by its own artesian well through q
turbine wheel. This is but q beginning
In years OF the future Yanhton will be
dotted over with ms nufacturing estab-
lishments run by this inexpensive power
1t beats the best surface water power III
the world. because the supply always re-
mains the same.
In striking contrast to the yellow
leaves OF the hundreds of trees in the
groves about Yankton are many fields
of the greener hue which may be seer
by q journey through the rural districts
These are the fields wherefrom the croE
has already been cut, which were plowec
soon after and are now covered with {
second growth an inch or more high.
The late frosts seem not to have injured
this syerdure and it Is as healthy ani
promising as in early spring.
General John B. Dennis, ex-br,gadle,
general OF the first brigade D. N. g., ssit
to-day, that he had heard that Dol. Ell. B
Murphy was to be appointed commits
sary for the first brigade, because thu
the man who furnished the supplies TO
. the juror ~encampment charged the ter
ritory too mach. General Dennis added
Y "They had to come down here and ne
my adi1tant to run the Huron camp ant
now they want my commissary to fur
4 nish the grub"
sis Yankton getting there?' said
> Yankton man to another man this morn
ing. well I should say so. Why NOR
grain has been marketed in YAnkton thi
fall thar in any town In Dakota. Yank
ton Is supported by people who live i
this country, and cot by the unstable
transient populace which floats tbrougl
: many places in Dakota to SO
what car be seen and then goes east an
stays there. We have water power an
other advantages, which no other Dahot
"a town has and that will enhance the valu
of this CITY 100 per cent within n yea'
:. Ysnkton is the most oolid town in de
z kota to-day, and while big firms in othe
Z cities go to the wall those in Yankto
2 continue to exist and thrive.
On First street there stands the oil
At white house once occupied by M. n
ar Aattheissen ss o residence and place {
business. This house was erected i
the early days of Yankton, in 1868, an
was at one time regsrded as q frontit
palace and was in the very heart of tt
business portion OF this city. 1t We
once the home OF the chief justice an
bis associate justice, who dealt out leg
decisions when there were but two j,
.d dicial districts in Dakota. Last nigl
MIR. Mattheissen, IN talking about th
Tia house, said that when he built, lots we
D. harder to get in Y%ankton.thaD they a
now. The house 10 slowly succumbli
IN 20 the attacks OF wind and weather, AZ
ne before many years will have disappea
ed.